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The Crucible

Date Submitted: 11/30/2004 15:13:04
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 5 pages (1307 words)
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"The Crucible" "The Crucible" is a play with many themes. The basic themes of this play are that fear and suspicion are infectious and can produce a state of general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and rationality, it is possible for peoples conceptions of good and evil to become so corrupted that they commit irreversible misdeeds in the name of virtue, and also that people who claim to be pious and …

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…Like Mrs. Putnam says in ACT I page 1048 in the bottom left hand column, "There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!" Many people in that village had digressions among each other. The pleading of the names by the girls was just a way for the town's people to get back at others in the village. This was a serious American crisis, that I hope never happens again, but is possible.

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